Free Press’s criticisms of a media ownership study...
Free Press’s criticisms of a media ownership study by the Minority Media and Telecommunications Council have little merit, MMTC said in an ex parte filing (http://bit.ly/1510s6W). The list of minority-owned stations that are no longer minority-owned “was derived directly from…
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FCC’s databases,” it said in response to Free Press’s claim that some of the stations were erroneously identified (CD Aug 8 p3). Free Press’s “mischaracterization of the peer reviewers is pure hyperbole and unsubstantiated by the record,” MMTC said. The FCC’s data on minority and female owners is “incomplete at best,” and the MMTC’s repetition of that incomplete information doesn’t move the issue of cross-ownership impacts forward, said Free Press Policy Director Matt Wood. Although MMTC said it had no knowledge of who survey conductor BIA/Kelsey contacted until the study was complete, Wood said the council should have then disclosed any prior business relationships with survey respondents.